Lafayette Boulevard is the south side of Downtown Fredericksburg, below the railroad tracks along Lafayette Boulevard toward the battlefield. The City assessor files its 366 homes under two neighborhoods: Fairview, at a 2025 median assessment of $447,700, and Highlander Park, at $527,000.
None of those homes sits in the local historic district and one is in a FEMA flood zone. Its 2025 median assessment, $484,200, is the lowest of Downtown's four parts.
Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025 assessment, homes inside Planning Area 7, checked 16 October 2026).
It is the mixed-use side of Downtown Fredericksburg: houses on Lafayette Boulevard's side streets mixed with light-industrial and commercial lots, and newer townhomes at Highlander Park. The boulevard runs from the train station toward the battlefield visitor center, with two VRE parking lots along the way. Here is what sits close by.
Sources: National Park Service, visitor centers; VRE, Fredericksburg Parking (October 2026); City trash schedule; City of Fredericksburg, Parks; FXBG Forward, Area 7.
Two: Fairview and Highlander Park. Fairview, on Lafayette Boulevard's side streets, has 273 homes, the most of any Downtown neighborhood, at a 2025 median of $447,700; Highlander Park's 93 townhomes sit at $527,000. Pick one on the map or the list.
Lafayette, Wolfe, Charlotte, Weedon, Lee Ave
Lafayette Boulevard's side streets. Zoning here mixes houses with light industrial and maker-district lots. The middle half of its homes are assessed between $365K and $522K.
Willis, Kinross, Beatson
Newer townhomes on small lots off Willis Street. Assessments sit in a narrow band: the middle half falls between $514K and $558K.
Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025 assessment, checked 16 October 2026); Virginia DHR survey of the Fredericksburg Historic District (2008). Assessed value is the City's tax value, not a sale price.
Fairview is the bigger, with 273 homes at a 2025 median assessment of $447,700, the middle half from $365K to $522K, a wider band than Highlander Park's. Highlander Park's 93 townhomes sit higher and tighter: a $527,000 median, with the middle half between $514K and $558K. Neither has a home in the local historic district.
| Neighborhood | Homes | Median assessed, 2025 | Historic district | Flood zone | Median soldMLS | Price per sq ftMLS | Days on marketMLS | For sale nowMLS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 273 | $447,700 | 0 of 273 | 0 of 273 | — | — | — | — |
| Highlander Park | 93 | $527,000 | 0 of 93 | 1 of 93 | — | — | — | — |
Grey columns fill in from MLS sales data.
Source: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025 assessment; homes are the assessor's Single Family Urban parcels inside Planning Area 7; checked 16 October 2026). Assessed value is the City's tax value, not a sale price.
Houses on Lafayette Boulevard's side streets and newer townhomes at Highlander Park. Fairview's 273 homes sit on streets where zoning mixes houses with light-industrial and commercial lots. Highlander Park's 93 townhomes, on small lots off Willis Street, are assessed in a narrow band, the middle half between $514K and $558K. No home here is in the local historic district.
The City's public records don't list the year each house was built. Most homes built before 1978 come with a federal lead-paint disclosure at sale.
Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025); FXBG Forward, Area 7; U.S. EPA, lead disclosure.
Until sales data is added here, the best public guide is the City's 2025 assessment: a median of $484,200 across the Lafayette Boulevard area's 366 homes, $447,700 in Fairview and $527,000 in Highlander Park. Assessed value is the City's tax value, not a sale price.
Sold prices by neighborhood will also fill the grey columns in the comparisons above and below.
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Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025 assessment, homes inside Planning Area 7, checked 16 October 2026).
Lafayette Boulevard has the lowest 2025 median assessment of Downtown Fredericksburg's four parts, $484,200, and the fewest historic-district rules: none of its homes is in the local historic district, and one is in a flood zone. Fairview's 273 homes are the most of any single Downtown neighborhood.
| Part of Downtown | Homes | Median assessed, 2025 | Historic district | Flood zone | Median soldMLS | Price per sq ftMLS | Days on marketMLS | For sale nowMLS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Historic Core | 460 | $526,500 | 389 of 460 | 81 of 460 | — | — | — | — |
| The North End | 348 | $547,950 | 88 of 348 | 0 of 348 | — | — | — | — |
| Washington Avenue & UMW | 454 | $523,000 | 4 of 454 | 0 of 454 | — | — | — | — |
| Lafayette Boulevard | 366 | $484,200 | 0 of 366 | 1 of 366 | — | — | — | — |
Grey columns fill in from MLS sales data.
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Source: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025 assessment, homes in each part's named neighborhoods, not counting condo communities; checked 16 October 2026). The four-part grouping is this guide's.
Lafayette Boulevard trades the historic streetscape and the shops of Caroline Street for lower prices and fewer rules. It sits south of the tracks, Fairview's streets mix houses with light-industrial lots, and the City's plan calls for more rail parking reached from the Route 3 and Dixon Street interchange. In return, no home here faces historic-district review, and its median assessment is the lowest of Downtown's four parts.
Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025); FXBG Forward, Area 7.
Sources: City of Fredericksburg assessor (2025); City of Fredericksburg, NFIP page; National Park Service, visitor centers.
The 1728 town grid and the streets that grew off it along the river.
Charles, Prince Edward and Winchester Streets north of Amelia, toward the canal.
Up the hill on Washington Avenue, Kenmore and the streets beside the university.
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